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...ELLSBERG OBTAIN THE PAPERS...
...futility of the war and wanted future historians to be able to determine what had gone wrong. For more than a year, 35 researchers, including Ellsberg, Rand Corporation experts, civilians and uniformed Pentagon personnel, worked out of an office adjoining McNamara's. With his backing, they were able to obtain Pentagon documents dating back to arguments within the Truman Administration on whether the U.S. should help the French in their vain effort to put down Communist-led Viet Minh uprisings in Viet Nam. The work was carried up to mid-1968, when it was delivered to McNamara's successor, Clark...
...organized crime; entertainers, hippies and adolescents could be given a bigger scapegoat role than they already have. But most solutions-like paying menial workers higher wages -would cause the affluent both fiscal and psychological pain. As a result, Gans concludes, poverty may disappear only "when the powerless can obtain enough power to change society...
...Probably the strongest possible injunction the government could obtain against a newspaper is one based on the question of national security." one professor said. "Still, it is a difficult allegation to prove, especially in this particular case...
Spur to Inflation. Even Medicare, passed in 1965 to lessen the economic impact of illness on the aged, has helped to push up the costs overall. The program provides broad medical coverage to an estimated 20 million Americans, most of whom would be otherwise unable to obtain insurance. But it has also worsened inflation by allowing over-generous payments for the care provided, increasing the demand for services without enlarging the supply...